Beginners welcome: no need to know anything about AWS! The AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate SAA-C03 certification is one of the most challenging exams. It's great at assessing how well you understand not just AWS, but making sure you are making the best architectural decisions based on situations, which makes this certification incredibly valuable to have and pass. Rest assured, I've passed it myself with a score of 982 out of 1000. Yes, you read that right, I only made one mistake! Next, I want to help YOU pass the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate certification with flying colors. This is going to be a long journey, but passing the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate exam will be worth it! This AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate course is different from the other ones you'll find on Platform. Dare I say, better (but you'll judge!) We will spend over three hours discussing solution architecture on AWS in depth. It covers in-depth all the new topics on the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate SAA-C02 exam It's packed with practical knowledge on how to use AWS inside and out as a solutions architect It teaches you how to prepare for the AWS exam AND how to prepare for the real world It's a logical progression of topics, not a laundry list of random services It's fast-paced and to the point It has professional subtitles All 800+ slides available as downloadable PDF Concretely, here's what we'll learn to pass the AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate exam: The AWS Fundamentals: IAM, EC2, Load Balancing, Auto Scaling, EBS, EFS, Route 53, RDS, ElastiCache, S3, CloudFront The AWS CLI: CLI setup, usage on EC2, best practices, SDK, advanced usage In-Depth Database comparison: RDS, Aurora, DynamoDB, ElastiCache, DocumentDB, Neptune, Keyspaces, QLDB, Timestream Analytics services comparison: Athena, EMR, Redshift, OpenSearch, Lake Formation, Kinesis Data Analytics, MSK, QuickSight, Glue Machine Learning services: Rekognition, Transcribe, Polly, Translate, Lex, Comprehend, SageMaker, Forecast, Kendra, Personalize, Textract. Monitoring, Troubleshooting & Audit: CloudWatch, CloudTrail, EventBridge, Config AWS Integration & Messaging: SQS, SNS, Kinesis Amazon MQ AWS Serverless: AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, API Gateway, Step Functions AWS Containers Services: ECS, ECR, EKS, App Runner AWS Security best practices: KMS, SSM Parameter Store, Secrets Manager, IAM Policies, Cognito, Shield, WAF, Firewall Manager, SSO, Certificate Manager, GuardDuty, Inspector, Macie VPC & Networking in depth Disaster Recovery & Migrations: DMS, Aurora & RDS Migrations, AWS Backup, Application Migration Service, VMware Cloud on AWS AWS Other Services Overview: CloudFormation, SES, Pinpoint, SSM Session Manager, Elastic Transcoder, Batch, AppFlow... Tips to ROCK the exam This AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate course is full of opportunities to apply your knowledge: There are many hands-on lectures in every section There are quizzes at the end of every section There's an AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate practice exam at the end of the course We'll be using the AWS Free Tier most of the time I'll be showing you how to go beyond the AWS Free Tier (you know... the real world!)